Current Academic Reflections on English Language Teaching in an EFL Setting

Dr İsmail Hakkı Mirici is the director of the Graduate School of Educational Sciences and chair of Foreign Language Education at Hacettepe University, Turkey. He has actively participated as a member and project leader in various national and international projects. Dr Mirici has authored twenty books, published over thirty articles, and presented more than fifty papers in national and international scientific conferences and journals. He is the chief editor of the Pegem Education Teaching Journal, the International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, and the International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction.Hatice Ergül is an assistant professor of English Language Teaching at Hacettepe University. She received her MA in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, and her PhD in Educational and Applied Linguistics from Newcastle University, UK. Her research interests include early language teaching, language teacher education, and classroom interaction. She is the vice-director of Hacettepe University Micro-analysis, Social Interaction, and Learning Research Center.